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The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today

Common Sense (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Paine (1776)
Critique of Pure Reason (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant (1787)
Reflections on the Revolution in France (Great Books in Philosophy) by Edmund Burke (1790)
Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth (The Works of William James) by William James (1908)
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (1943)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (2006 Edition)
Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner (2006 Edition)
W, or the Memory of Childhood (Verba Mundi) by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos (2006/2008 Edition)
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
A Void (Verba Mundi) by Georges Perec (2006/2008 Edition)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner (2006/2008 Edition)
On Love: A Novel by Alain de Botton (2006/2008 Edition)
Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis (2006/2008 Edition)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (2006/2008 Edition)
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (2008 Edition)

ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Non-fiction, 1999)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Non-fiction, 1999)

Ambassador Book Award

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (American Studies, 1993)
Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball (American Studies, 1999)
The Time of Our Singing: A Novel by Richard Powers (Fiction, 2004)

Anthony Burgess: 99 Novels

Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis (1954)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Arthur Ross Book Award Shortlist

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (2007)

Bancroft Prize

Benjamin Barondess Award

Christianity Today Book Awards

The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark A. Noll (No. 1, 1995, Book of the Year)
The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief by George M. Marsden (No. 2, 1995)

Colorado Book Award

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (2004)

Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself by Philip L. Fradkin (Californiana, Silver, 2005)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (Nonfiction, Gold, 1997)
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (Nonfiction, Silver, 1998)

CounterPunch's Top 100 [and a few more] Non-fiction Works of the 20th Century

The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

Cundill International Prize in History Longlist

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha (2008)

Firecracker Alternative Book Award

A Void (Verba Mundi) by Georges Perec (Fiction, 1996)

Fortune's 75 The Smartest Books We Know

Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Globalization)

Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award

Thomas Jefferson by R. B. Bernstein (honorable mention, 2004)

Frederic W. Ness Book Award

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (New Edition) by Derek Bok (2008)

Frederick Douglass Prize

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism by Christopher Leslie Brown (2007)

Guardian 1000

Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics) by Kingsley Amis (Comedy)
A Void (Verba Mundi) by Georges Perec (Comedy)
Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (Comedy)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Family and self)
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner (Family and self)
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos (State of the nation)
The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis (State of the nation)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (War and travel)

HarperCollins 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh

Irish Book Award Nominee

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (Tubridy Show Listener's Choice, 2007)

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (1999)

James A. Rawley Prize

The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition by Edward L. Ayers (1993)

James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism by Christopher Leslie Brown (2006)

James Fenimore Cooper Prize

Gain by Richard Powers (1999)

James Henry Breasted Prize

The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams (2003)

James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff (Biography, 1999)
A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey (Biography, 2004)

Jefferson Davis Award

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behaviour in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (1982)

Jewish Quarterly Literary Prize Shortlist

Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff (non-fiction, 1999)

John H. Dunning Prize

The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Cu by Gordon S. Wood (1970)

Kiriyama Prize Finalist

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha (Nonfiction, 2008)

Larry McCaffery's 20th Century Greatest Hits

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (3)
The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner (5)
JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by William Gaddis (17)
The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis (27)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (32)
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos (58)

Locus Recommended Reading

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (Science Fiction Novel, 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah (Current Interest, 1985)
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins (Current Interest, 1987)
I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R. Hofstadter (Science & Technology, 2007)
In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind by Eric R. Kandel (Science and Technology, 2006)

Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist

Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg (Biography, 2007)

Minnesota Book Awards

Our Sometime Sister by Norah Labiner ( Novels and Short Stories, 1999)
Miniatures by Norah Labiner ( Fiction - Novel or Collection of Short Stories by a Single Author Winner, 2003)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Board's List

The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin (17)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (24)
A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls (28)
The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) by Ian Hacking (98)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction: The Reader's List

The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (16)

The Modern Library's 100 Best Novels

The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions) by William Faulkner (The Board's List, 6)
U.S.A.: The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money (Library of America) by John Dos Passos (The Board's List, 23)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (The Board's List, 35)
Light in August (The Corrected Text) by William Faulkner (The Board's List, 54)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (The Reader's List, 21)
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (The Reader's List, 36)
The Recognitions (Penguin Classics) by William Gaddis (The Reader's List, 61)

The Morning News Tournament of Books

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (Semifinalist, 2007)

Morris D. Forkosch Prize

Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism by Christopher Leslie Brown (2006)

Médicis

Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (1978)

National Book Award

Collected Stories of William Faulkner by William Faulkner (Fiction, 1951)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1974)
JR (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by William Gaddis (Fiction, 1976)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (Fiction, 1994)
Slaves in the Family (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by Edward Ball (Nonfiction, 1998)
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1981)

National Book Award finalist

Southern Honor: Ethics and Behaviour in the Old South by Bertram Wyatt-Brown (History (Hardcover), 1983)
The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Cu by Gordon S. Wood (History and Biography, 1970)
The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction - 15th Anniversary Edition by Edward L. Ayers (Nonfiction, 1992)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett (Nonfiction, 1995)
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer (Nonfiction, 1998)
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens (Nonfiction, 2007)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (Science (Hardcover), 1982)

National Book Critics Circle Award

Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Criticism, 1992)
The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (General Nonfiction, 1981)

National Book Critics Circle Award finalist

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett (Criticism, 2006)
Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1985)
Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1991)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (Fiction, 1994)
Galatea 2.2: A Novel by Richard Powers (Fiction, 1995)
The Time of Our Singing: A Novel by Richard Powers (Fiction, 2003)
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk (General Nonfiction, 2005)

Nebula Nominee

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Novel, 1973)

New York Times Best Books of the Year

A Theory of Justice: Original Edition by John Rawls (1972)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett (1991)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (1992)
A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (1994)
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (1997)

New York Times bestseller

World Enough and Time (Voices of the South) by Robert Penn Warren (Fiction, 1950)
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1973)
Mason & Dixon: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 1997)
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction, 2006)
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (General, 1943)
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster Lincoln Library) by Garry Wills (Nonfiction, 1992)
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer (Nonfiction, 2003)

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon (Fiction & Poetry, 2006)
The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart (Non-Fiction, 2006)

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